Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:22:51 06/08/01
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On June 08, 2001 at 17:24:48, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On June 08, 2001 at 15:19:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Here is a cute position that occurred between a commercial program and Crafty >>last week: >> >>[D] 8/p4pp1/3rk2p/4p3/2P5/2K4P/P2R1PP1/8 w - - 0 1 >> >>Crafty was black and moved the rook to d6, offering a trade. The opponent >>took it and was happy to do so. Unfortunately, white is lost. White saw >>the passed pawn and apparently was quite happy. Crafty's static evaluation >>for this position is -1.0 roughly. > >[D] 8/p5p1/3rkp1p/4p2P/2P3P1/2K2P2/P2R4/8 w - - 0 1 > >What's the static evaluation for that one? > >bruce roughly even. My static evaluation code realizes that black has no candidate on the kingside. I do a lot of static analysis of which pawns can move where and then evaluate candidates based on that. Here black can't do a thing on the kingside and it realizes that statically. A short search has white nearly winning. Quite different from the one I gave..
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